Extreme Heat and Poor Air Quality: Dual Threats to Cardiovascular Health

HomeCirculationVol. 148, No. 4Extreme Heat and Poor Air Quality: Dual Threats to Cardiovascular Health No AccessEditorialRequest AccessFull TextAboutView Full TextView PDFView EPUBSections ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload citationsTrack citationsPermissions ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InMendeleyReddit Jump toNo AccessEditorialRequest AccessFull TextExtreme Heat and Poor Air Quality: Dual Threats to Cardiovascular Health Sameed Ahmed M. Khatana and Peter W. Groeneveld Sameed Ahmed M. KhatanaSameed Ahmed M. Khatana Correspondence to: Sameed A.M. Khatana, MD, MPH, 1212 Blockley Hall, 423 Guardian Dr, Philadelphia, PA 19104. Email E-mail Address: [email protected] https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1345-3004 Corporal Michael J. Crescenz Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA (S.A.M.K., P.W.G.). VA Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion, Philadelphia, PA (S.A.M.K., P.W.G.). Center for Cardiovascular Outcomes, Quality, and Evaluative Research (S.A.M.K., P.W.G.), University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. Divisions of Cardiovascular Medicine (S.A.M.K., P.W.G.), University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. Perelman School of Medicine, and Leonard Davis Institute for Health Economics (S.A.M.K., P.W.G.), University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. Search for more papers by this author and Peter W. GroeneveldPeter W. Groeneveld https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7374-4292 Corporal Michael J. Crescenz Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA (S.A.M.K., P.W.G.). VA Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion, Philadelphia, PA (S.A.M.K., P.W.G.). Center for Cardiovascular Outcomes, Quality, and Evaluative Research (S.A.M.K., P.W.G.), University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. Divisions of Cardiovascular Medicine (S.A.M.K., P.W.G.), University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. General Internal Medicine (P.W.G.), University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. Perelman School of Medicine, and Leonard Davis Institute for Health Economics (S.A.M.K., P.W.G.), University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. Search for more papers by this author Originally published24 Jul 2023https://doi.org/10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.123.065572Circulation. 2023;148:324–326This article is a commentary on the followingExtreme Temperature Events, Fine Particulate Matter, and Myocardial Infarction MortalityFootnotesThe opinions expressed in this article are not necessarily those of the editors or of the American Heart Association.For Disclosures, see page 325.Circulation is available at www.ahajournals.org/journal/circCorrespondence to: Sameed A.M. Khatana, MD, MPH, 1212 Blockley Hall, 423 Guardian Dr, Philadelphia, PA 19104. Email sameed.khatana@pennmedicine.upenn.eduREFERENCES1. Xu R, Huang S, Shi C, Wang R, Liu T, Li Y, Zheng Y, Lv Z, Wei J, Sun H, et al. 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